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The two interstate highways crossing South Carolina – I-85 and I-95 – do not intersect, either literally or figuratively, in this state. Both roadways were built on hopes of increasing prosperity, but only one has delivered that promise to those who live alongside its corridors. The I-95 corridor represents half the population living alongside I-85, but twice the unemployment and demonstrably higher rates of poverty.
Miles To Go South Carolina (2002) |
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| State Profiles present key data about each state's student and school population and its NAEP testing history and results. The profiles provide easy access to all NAEP data for participating states and links to the most recent state report cards for all available subjects. |
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| Austin Interfaith is an effort to organize local communities to take charge of solutions for problems such as education, housing, and employment in low-income communities in Austin. They work through relationships and commitments from people to improve conditions by providing training and organizing support, and through collective action to affect policymaking. They are allied with a network of public schools, the Alliance Schools Initiative, that is committed to improving the education of low income students in Texas and three other states. 1301 S.I.H. 35, Suite 313 "Austin, TX 78741" 512-916-0100 phone |
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| Trains and educates parent activists in Austin's Latino immigrant community. Also networks with other parent activists. -NCEA Newsletter 1919 First Street "Austin, TX 78704" 512-441-7977 phone |
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| Houston ACORN is active in three school districts. In Houston Independent School District, an ACORN-teachers alliance managed to unseat the Chamber of Commerce candidate and shift the balance of power to a solid pro-teacher majority and away from interests whose primary concerns were winning food and bus contracts and vouchers. The ACORN campaign emphasized bringing class size down to the state limits and dealing with the issue that 15 percent of teachers are substitutes. In North Forest, ACORN members recently elected a school board member who beat an incumbent and lost a second squeaker by just 13 votes. In Pecan Park, members took to the streets to win cross walks, school zone, and solar powered flashing lights. |
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| Austin Voices for Education and Youth mobilizes the community to strengthen schools and expand opportunities for Austin's youth. We work alongside community members, young people, parents, and educators to improve our schools and neighborhoods. |
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| RISD’s mission is to promote enrichment, innovation and excellence in education throughout the Richardson Independent School District by developing supportive community relationships and providing supplemental funds for programs in the district that allow all students to achieve academic excellence, develop individual and civic responsibility, enjoy a safe learning environment, and be taught by the most highly qualified staff; recognize, reward and support staff for exemplary teaching and innovative efforts; recognize students for, and support students in, their innovative efforts and in their future educational pursuits. |
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| The mission of The Houston A+ Challenge is to promote an academically rich and purposeful education for more of our children and to demonstrate how such an education could become possible for all our children. |
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| The San Antonio Education Partnership was established in 1988 to address several areas of concern. Founders were primarily concerned with the inadequate school completion and performance rates by students from the lower socioeconomic and predominantly minority areas of the city. This dismal picture of achievement was linked to a second concern regarding the future local workforce. As a city with approximately a 60% minority population, a poorly educated workforce would severely limit the city's future economic prospects. |
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| Plano Parental Rights Council is a nonprofit Texas Corporation dedicated to improving parental participation in their child’s education. The goal of the Plano Parental Rights Council is to provide the parents with information and resources so they can be successful advocates for their children. |
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| SEDL carries out its program of work through the following projects as aone of the U.S. Department of Education's regional educational laoratory: Southeast Comprehensive Assistance Center (SECAC); Eisenhower Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Teachinghing (SCIMAST); SouthCentral Regional Technology Consortium (SouthCentral RTEC); National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR); Languages Other Than English Center for Educator Development (LOTE CED) work focuses on an integrated program of applied research and development, professional development, assistance and services. |
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| TechNet is a network of senior executives of the nation's leading technology companies. TechNet members include chief executive officers and senior partners of companies in the fields of information technology, biotechnology, venture capital, investment banking and law. TechNet's mission is to build bipartisan support for policies that strengthen America's leadership of the New Economy. |
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| The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights and individual responsibility. The Foundation's mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on state issues, and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policy makers, the media and general public. The work of the Foundation is conducted by academics across Texas and is funded by hundreds of individuals, foundations and corporations. |
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